this is way too dramatic and dumb

Is the presenter Ackroyd himself? He looks a little unhealthy I hope he is still ok. He shared in another documentary that he suffered a heart attack around that time.

The guillotine was NOT invented by the namesake...it was invented by a german who built musical instruments i think his name was "schmidt".. oh well minor point but lets keep it real 😮😊

What a wonderful program. I love the poetry of the Romantics. Thank the Heavens for the BBC/PBS

Brilliant!!! Beautifully done!❤

20:14 "most innocently..." "Shelly's own intensity of feeling was most important thing, to him. He was relentless in the pursuit of self-gratification and self,-knowledge Woahh

Over dramatized and terrible muzak does disservice to the poets.

28:45

What a corny documentary. It's a disservice to the subject

Tom Paine needs to revisit the US, he'd see a different picture evolving. Common Sense is getting harder to find.

I'm here for enjoyment and listening to English. also I hope to find someone to practice english language with him ❤

The American People are being controlled and manipulated by corporations that also control and manipulate government. We are like a flock of panicked sheep being herded by ravenous dogs.

Nicolas Jacques Pelletier was the first victim of the guillotine. Say his name

This is fantastic. Thanks so much for this recitation!

This is not homework! This is fascinating :)

This guy looks and sounds like if someone went “What if Elmer Fudd was extremely British?”

If one has the inclination; highly recommend reading William Blake. The highlight of my life, was watching Allen Ginsberg, sing Blake live with a lap organ... Heavenly ❤

Man why your moustache so thin? Is this some 1700s rizz thing?

Irritating music. WAY TOO LOUD and mostly just distracting. Boo.

the comments lol am i one of the only people watching this for enjoyment lol

46.32 Mary Shelley

This shit ass

Interesting, i was watching something about Ayatollah khomeinei and HE published his revolutionary manifesto in exile as well. It seems thats the only safe way? We got a couple of exiles, where can we find THEIR latest work?

If thinking was so dangerous back then, it's a good thing they weren't smoking that purp!?

When someone as young as Shelley was advocating for Atheism, as equally were so many other so-called Romantics across Europe, we can see how the efflorescence of the European intellect took a wrong turn and betrayed so many disillusioned Europeans. Leading to formalizing detrimental and bleak morality-free doctrines like Objectivism, Racialism, Communism, Hedonism, and a bleak and crass Materialism. In the place of Religion and a connection with God, the Romantics and other Europeans turned to the worship of the false idols created by limited minds indicative of a moribund human nature and desire to devolve rather than evolve. Pining for the past while ignoring the real reason for disillusionment and the coldness of modernity, the Romantics erred by not realizing that the root of their disenchantment and growing angst was the Decline of Religion that had been underway ever since the Middle Ages in Europe. The Romantics by divorcing themselves from God reverted back to the Stone Age and Hunter-Gatherer Animism and Paganism, albeit expressing a sort of refinement of the senses and appreciation for the importance of connecting with lofty sentiments and writing with such skill and sensitivity. The worship of Nature is what happens in the unevolved mind or minds of those who chose to renounce a belief in a Higher Being than themselves. The Europeans then were driven perforce to embrace the mentality of being connected only to one's immediate racial, national, and cultural community. Rather than striving for Oneness with all of humanity, too many Europeans rushed to be at one with the lower kingdom and one's personal and sensual desires and feelings. What the Romantics were really expressing in microcosm was the feeling that humans across the world were in need for a major renewal of Religion in the wake of the declining former Religions sent by God. A decline that had to happen per the Divine mandate called "Progressive Revelation". What he Romantics were feeling unbeknownst to them was the imminent appearance of one named Baha'u'llah(birthname Mirza Husayn Ali) and His Predecessor, Siyyid Ali Muhammad(aka "The Bab"), both of whom would appear in Iran(Persia formerly) in 1863 and 1844, respectively. www.bahai.org

Is that David Tenant from Doctor Who?? And the other guy is in Doctor Who as well as the Master, I think? I think he also played Moriarty in Sherlock Holmes.

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I’m a Romantic. I’m here now; so, I am. Here.🧑‍🎨

Proof of all CLAIMS Required.

Typically modern trash BBC version of a documentary. Nothing but gimmickry editing and headache inducing noise from start to finish. Garbage.

Meanwhile, today in Britain a king is still head of state but now enjoying a luxurious lifestyle without the responsibilities. Our second legislative chamber, The House of Lords, remains entirely unelected and has more members than ever before. The aristocracy keep their stolen lands and their titles. This is Britain in 2023!

MY LIFE PHILOSOPHY, DONT LIE, CHEAT OR STEAL.

I hate modern life

The thick American (AI?) accent and unrelenting monotone renders this historic document unlistenable.

IT'S DAVID TENNANT :D

Who else was sent by their English teacher?

Hitler was just a variation on the historic tradition of despotism...

Blake was one of the truly great Englishmen...

Imagination is the only real king amongst men...

"We will never have freedom until the last king, general and banker have been strangled by the entrails of the last priest, AI technology and corporate tyrants.

Russo's revelation is wonderful and sadly true..

DIDER'S QUOTE PRICELESS!

Yep, highly relevant to the present where the WEF and other financial demons are trying to erase individual freedoms.

Peter Ackroyd is one of the greatest biographers of all time, next to A N Wilson. In my humble opinion.

Excellent

Being 70, lifelong learning, understanding, observation, experience, re-examination 24/7 365. Humanity is an collective of innocently ignorant born again failures who want success without the means or understanding of what success and failure are. There is no manual to being or life, there are books, millions of them that postulate 'this is the way' all written by conscious cognosentient innocently ignorant born again beings. And so it goes.

The students who are “suffering” through this documentary remind me of the Mark Twain quote… “When I was a boy of 14, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be 21, I was astonished at how much the old man had learned in seven years.” ~ Mark Twain

At 10:10, there is a misconception. Feminism did not "fail the family", it actually is part of the ideology since the Bolshevik revolution; and Kollontai knew that.

Such a dark summary of such a fascinating time.

hold tight before it crumbles